NEWS
Lynne Sachs and Ann Arbor Film Festival Campaign to Increase Barbara Hammer Award Endowment
Lynne and the Ann Arbor Film Festival are beginning a campaign to increase the endowment for the $500 annual award from its present $5,000 to $15,000. Read more to learn how to contribute.
February 3, 2022 - 8:00pm
Luminor Hôtel de Ville
Paris
Light Cone is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a Scratch Projection program including Barbara Hammer's "I Was/I Am"
The Personal Is Archival: Barbara Hammer’s Creation of Feminist History
Chapter 4 of Laura Stamm's The Queer Biopic in the AIDS Era investigates Barbara Hammer’s creation and use of queer archives to tell stories—via particular lesbians—of lesbian cultures past.
RESCHEDULED: Pioneers of Queer Cinema Retrospective Celebrates LGBTQ+ Cinematic Achievements
Series running Jan 22-Mar 20, 2022; Nitrate Kisses screening Friday, March 11, 2022 - 7:30 pm
Billy Wilder Theater
UCLA
Screening Jan. 22-Mar. 20, “Pioneers of Queer Cinema” will showcase 33 landmark works of LGBTQ+ moving image history, illuminated by conversations with the visionary artists and storytellers who made them. Barbara Hammer's Nitrate Kisses will screen on March 11, with Q&A with Florrie Burke.
Looking Back / The 12th White Columns Annual
January 22–March 5, 2022
New York, NY
White Columns is excited to reinstate its Annual exhibition, Looking Back, for its 12th iteration, curated by the New York-based artist Mary Manning. The exhibition will be presented throughout all of White Columns’ galleries, alongside a parallel screening of Barbara Hammer’s films at The Center.
History Lessons — The Present of Feminist/Queer Film Curation in Japan
March 6, 2022 - 1:00-5:45pm
Zoom
Japan-Only Online Event
Subversive Records has invited experts and practitioners of feminist/queer film theory and curation in Japan to discuss how issues of gender and sexuality intersect within the realm of film and its curation, and to shed light on the present of feminist/queer film curation in Japan. The event includes a screening of Barbara Hammer's History Lessons.
Nitrate Kisses at Stray Cat Film Center
Mon, January 17, 2022, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM CST
Stray Cat Film Center
Kansas City, MO
Iconic lesbian feminist filmmaker Barbara Hammer's archival classic
“Thoughts On Making Films With Barbara Hammer” Published in Camera Obscura
This personal essay articulates filmmaker Lynne Sachs’s experiences working with experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer. Sachs conveys the journey of her relationship with Hammer when they were both artists living in San Francisco in the late 1980s and 1990s and then later in New York City.
“Tell me there is a lesbian forever…” Included in NY Times Best Art Exhibitions List
New York Times's "Best Art Exhibitions of 2021" includes Company Gallery's "Tell me there is a lesbian forever...".
A Month of Single Frames Screening at Metrograph
December 10, 11, 12
Metrograph Theater
7 Ludlow Street
Lynne Sachs will participate in a post-screening conversation with special guest feminist scholar Silvia Federici, a longtime advocate for the recognition of unwaged labor and a founder of the Wages for Housework movement.
The Future Of Film Is Female 2021 Fall Short Film Fund Recipients Revealed
The recipients include Brydie O’Connor for Love, Barbara.
December 6th, 7:30 PM
Ted Mann Theater
Programmed and notes by UCLA Film & Television Archive Film Programmer K.J. Relth-Miller and Academy Film Archive Senior Film Preservationist Mark Toscano “Tell me there is a lesbian forever…” featured by The Brooklyn Rail
Ksenia Soboleva reviews the exhibition at Company for The Brooklyn Rail.
“Tell me there is a lesbian forever…” featured in ARTFORUM Critics’ Picks
Cassie Packard writes on the Company Gallery exhibit for ARTFORUM. 
“Tell me there is a lesbian forever…” curated by Tiona Nekkia McClodden
October 2 - November 6, 2021
Company Gallery
145 Elizabeth Street, New York, NY
Tell me there's a lesbian forever... is the inaugural exhibition at the new Company Gallery location, 145 Elizabeth Street, NY.
Creative Capital Archiving Series: Archiving Through People
September 30, 2021 7:00-8:00pm ET
Virtual
This conversation will unpack the ways that Barbara’s community helped to preserve her archive even as it was continuing to grow, and how she built a legacy that continues to give back today.
Barbara Hammer Estate Appoints New Executive Director: Louky Keijsers Koning
August 31, 2021
New York, NY
The Barbara Hammer Estate under the direction of Florrie Burke (Executor and Art Administrator of the Estate) is pleased to announce its newly appointed Executive Director: Louky Keijsers Koning, in the debut role.
Barbara Hammer: Pushing Out of the Frame
Available August 24, 2021
Barbara Hammer: Pushing Out of the Frame by Sarah Keller explores the career of experimental filmmaker and visual artist Barbara Hammer.
Edinburgh International Film Festival Screens “A Month of Single Frames”
August 18-25, 2021
A programme of short films, exploring collaboration, communication and interrelation.
Barbara Hammer Estate matches grant challenge to support LGBTQ Cinema at SFSU
“The Barbara Hammer Award and the challenge grant fit within her vision of encouraging other artists and filmmakers,” Burke said. “The School of Cinema and the Queer Cinema Project are vital parts of the University. To support them is an honor and a testament to the beginning of Barbara Hammer’s long career.”
“DOG” Exhibition Opening at Company Gallery June 4th – Reception June 4th, 5-7pm
Opening 6/4/2021, Reception 6/4/2021 5-7pm ET
Company Gallery
88 Eldridge St, Flr 5, New York, NY 10002
DOG Exhibit opening at Company Gallery on June 4th
Cinémathèque Québécoise Screening No No Nooky T.V.
May 26 and May 28, 2021
Cinémathèque Québécoise
Montreal, Quebec
On May 26 and May 28, 2021, Cinémathèque Québécoise will be screening Barbara Hammer's film No No Nooky T.V.
Company Gallery Expanding to New Location
September 2021
145 Elizabeth Street, New York, NY
Company Gallery is pleased to announce their upcoming expansion and move to their new home at 145 Elizabeth Street in September 2021.
Queer|Art Awards Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant to Rraine Hanson
Rraine Hanson (she/they/he) is a queer, gender-nonconforming, Jamaican filmmaker, most interested in utilizing design and mixed media to tell stories centering the experiences and imaginations of queer and trans people of colour.
May 14, 2021
Tune in to the three-episode premiere of PRIDE on FX on Friday, May 14. Barbara Hammer and Florrie Burke will be featured in the third episode, directed by Cheryl Dunye.
Queer Cinema of San Francisco State University
May 4, 2021, 6:00pm
Online
On Tuesday, May 4th at 6 PM, The Archive Project will be putting on a special one-time only screening of queer cinema made by students throughout SFSU’s long history. The presented short films showcase a variety of experiences and genres that speak to the complex history of LGBTQIA+ culture that can be found in San Francisco just by looking at artists who have gone through the university’s doors.
WOMEN I LOVE Exhibition at Franz Josefs Kai 3
May 3, 2021 - May 16, 2021
Franz Josefs Kai 3
Vienna, Austria
This retrospective exhibition, the first of its kind in Austria, focuses on the content and significance of Barbara Hammer's visual interweaving of films, photographs, drawings, collages and performances. The exhibition develops an image of Hammer as a committed activist for the equality of all genders and an advocate for human rights. In films, photographs as well as interviews, the exhibition combines autobiographical material and artistic work that is groundbreaking for many contemporary artists.